Tuesday, November 21, 2017
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Buyatab Office
788 Beatty St., Suite B1, Vancouver, BC
From the main building entrance on Beatty Street, take the elevator down to suite B1. Alternatively, use the atrium stair well at the south west corner of the building down one flight of stairs to the Buyatab entrance. Please ring the buzzer.
Our November meetup will be hosted by "Buyatab" in their Vancouver office. Join us for refreshments, pizza courtesy of TriNimbus and a great talk!
6:00pm - Arrival, mingling, pizza eating
6:25pm - Introductions & Presentation Begin
8:00pm - Evening concludes
Talk Title: “Alien Conspiracy Theories: Migrating a Microsoft .Net Shop to AWS”
Talk Description: One year ago, Buyatab Online Inc was a dyed-in-the-wool .Net software development shop. If a tool or library didn't have a Microsoft logo stamped on it, it was strictly verboten for usage at Buyatab. Introducing the concept of moving the entire platform to the cloud was treated as a radical idea by the existing staff... and that was assuming the migration would be to Microsoft Azure. Suggesting a migration to AWS was seen as heresy, since every .Net developer knows that AWS = Java/Linux, right?
The purpose of this talk is three-fold:
- Explain how we landed on AWS as a choice for our cloud infrastructure.
- Provde a How-To manual on being an advocate for an AWS cloud migration in a sea of sceptics.
- Provide some technical demos and rationale of how we applied a DevOps mentality and non-Microsoft tools to our AWS migration.
Presenters:
• Ailin Zhou, DevOps Manager at Buyatab
• Chris Falk, CTO at Buyatab
Presenter BIOs:
Ailin Zhou is a reformed security analyst who narrowly averted a continued career in compliance by joining Buyatab as DevOps Manager. She embraces cloud computing technologies and is a strong advocate of DevOps culture. She oversees daily operations of Buyatab's AWS infrastructure as well as all corporate IT infrastructure. Ailin holds a MSc degree from the University of Alberta.
Chris Falk is an aging backcountry skier, mountain biker, rock climber and surfer who has traveled the world in search of the perfect run, trail, wall and wave. In his spare time, Chris works as the Chief Technology Officer at Buyatab.
Location:
Buyatab Office, Suite B1 - 788 Beatty St. Vancouver, BC
“From the main building entrance on Beatty Street, take the elevator down to suite B1. Alternatively, use the atrium stair well at the south west corner of the building down one flight of stairs to the Buyatab entrance. Please ring the buzzer if no one is at the door. (Note: The atrium entrance may be closed after 6pm.)”